Everyone reading this post should give themselves credit because the decision to take him out is a no-brainer (which is why even Democrats could handle it).

IIRC, the *real* POTUS - Valerie Jarrett - nixed the OBL raid twice before finally realizing the 'optics' of not acting would have bled over into the 2012 campaign. After all, everything these Chicago thug bastards do is political.

This quote from an article, listed below, by Dr. Larry J. Sabato illustrates that he is well suited to be a writer for Politico, the Magazine for shallow, left-wing, low information voters.

These writers pass themselves off as the intelligentsia of the 47 % who pay no Personal Federal Income Taxes.

IOW, they make a living as long as we keep on giving.

Larry J. makes a living by spading around in the surface layers that are rich in the manure of the words and antics of those who are in politics for the fun of it:
* Mrs. Bill Benghazi Clinton;
* Joe Chains Biden;
* John Catchup Kerry;
* John Benghazi Coverup Boehner;
* Harry Do Nothing Reid;
* Son-of-a-Mitch McConnell; and
* All loyal Obamacrat RINOs and Democrats.

It can never get to shallow for the manure-diggers and their megaphone employers at Politico, New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, LA Times, Huff-Puff Post, MSNBC, NBC, CBS, ABC, and, of course, the Clinton News Network, CNN.

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What Larry J. ignores is what is interesting. Listed below are a few topics as follows:

* Whereas Larry J. is a true believer in the school of thought that The Man Makes the History, the opposite is less easy to prove, but has many adherents, including yours truly.

* Larry J. gives the impression, IMHO of course, that an understanding of basic motivation factors are not necessary to predict election success or failure.

For example, Larry J. mentions decades of partisan polarization, and smoke and mirror budgets, but does not dig deeper through that shallow political manure layer to opine on the root causes of polarization and economic deception that motivate voters at a basic level.

Note: Here I make the assumption that one basic motivation factor for voters is that they always vote their pocketbook.

Ponder these questions:

* What if our polarization was directly related to the numerical value our total National Poverty Debt?

* Has our failure to punish politicians who have not been good stewards of our tax dollars done the following:
** weakened our desire to enforce the US Constitution;
** decreased our belief in making a profit by honest hard work; and
** acceptance of the permissive boys-will-be-boys attitude toward the politicians that we pay to Regulate us?

* Are we, the voters, the root cause of the political tyranny that now controls everything we do?

IOW, have we created the optimum conditions for us to become victims of tyranny?

It is always easy to point the finger of blame towards others, but notice how many fingers are pointing back at you - - - .

The decision to take out Bin Laden WAS a no brain-er, but even then Obama (and Valery Jarret) stopped it two or three times before Leon Panetta took it upon himself to ASSUME they had verbal go-ahead if certain conditions were met.

Then he made sure those conditions were met and the operation started before Obama was called in off the golf course to tell him what was going on.

Even then I think he would have stopped it if it was not already in progress. But I feel 100% certain he left himself an ‘out’ in case the mission went bad, so he could blame others for acting on their own.

So far, he has been extremely lucky that he has not caused any major disasters, like that would have been.

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posted on 03/05/2014 1:15:13 PM PST
by Mr. K
(If you like your constitution, you can keep it...Period.)

This cowardly leader may lead us to war as world leaders loose respect for him and this country.

Bad people are attracted to weakness... Ever notice how street gangs move toward the person walking alone? We're somewhat blessed by Obama NOT showing the extent of his weakness in the first four years. The world's thugs can count - they know Obama's a short timer...

The real sticking point is Obama's Administration wasn't the author of the policy that finally ended bin Laden, it was Bush's Administration.

As I recall, and to his credit, President Dubya never sought to steal honor from our men and women in uniform; and, he was always careful to praise their work, and their mission, and their accomplishments, and he took losses personally.

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